... relocate ourselves from our traditions and cultures and move to a new land as Brave Orchid did in "The Woman Warrior". We also read poetry by Langston Hughes who brings another view to the spectrum, one of conquering oppression that I dare say helped fuel the many African Americans into the Civil Rights movements that took place a few decades after his initial writings. Since it was a novel that ... that life throws our ways, whether they be because of the color of our skin or our sex. And that the one power we posses to help us overcome these obstacles is that of telling our story or w...

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